I realized I've been on a kick lately where I've been buying and enjoying products that are tied to Gunpei Yokoi. I've always liked Virtual Boy, and though I sold my hardware a couple years back, it was always something I liked, even when it first came out, and just last week finally played completely through Virtual Boy Wario Land, which is great. I thought I'd start a thread to talk about his non-Gameboy stuff, since I bought a few Game & Watches and a Wonderswan in the past few weeks lol
First, some links for good information about all this stuff:
Jeremy Parish's Virtual Boy Works, probably the best video retrospective of the system
Kelsey Lewin's short history on Game & Watch, not exhaustive but is a nice refresher on the basics
Retronauts did two episodes about Gunpei Yokoi recently, too, here are episodes one and two (the first is pre-Game & Watch stuff, the second covers Game & Watch and later)
There's not a lot of English-language Wonderswan content on YT, but I like this from USGamer from years ago about good games for the system
So for me, I recently traded a Gameboy Micro I wasn't using for a Green House Game & Watch, and I'm glad I did, because the game is a blast to play:
I'd originally played the game on the DS Game & Watch collection, which was kind of a big deal for me at the time because I'd always written off the Game & Watches as crappy LCD games akin to those 90s era Tiger handheld games I'd had as a kid, which were awful, and even Mr Game & Watch's appearance in Smash Bros Melee seemed to me to be nothing but a cute nod to ancient Nintendo history. But of the Game & Watch games I've actually gone and played, including the above and the various Game & Watch collections for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, they're actually fun little games! Green House is - so far - my favorite, but I've found myself enjoying Ball, Helmet, Donkey Kong Jr, Fire, and a few others lately on various old collections. If you haven't given these games a shot, I'd really recommend them - they're quite arcadey (in an early 80s way) and can get quite hectic.
I'm in the early stages of playing on Wonderswan hardware, too. I got a Final Fantasy themed Wonderswan Color, and will be backlighting it soon, and apparently, the guy who makes the flash cart is going to be making a new batch soon:
I hope I can get one, because they're not made very often, and I want to be able to play English fantranslations of things like the first Chocobo Dungeon game, the SaGa 1 remake, and the first two Final Fantasies on actual hardware!
So this thread is for non-Gameboy Yokoi stuff (since Tegan's thread has that covered)! Does anyone have an Ultra Hand? Did you meet your spouse while playing the Love Tester? Or just talk about the Virtual Boy!
First, some links for good information about all this stuff:
Jeremy Parish's Virtual Boy Works, probably the best video retrospective of the system
Kelsey Lewin's short history on Game & Watch, not exhaustive but is a nice refresher on the basics
Retronauts did two episodes about Gunpei Yokoi recently, too, here are episodes one and two (the first is pre-Game & Watch stuff, the second covers Game & Watch and later)
There's not a lot of English-language Wonderswan content on YT, but I like this from USGamer from years ago about good games for the system
So for me, I recently traded a Gameboy Micro I wasn't using for a Green House Game & Watch, and I'm glad I did, because the game is a blast to play:
I'd originally played the game on the DS Game & Watch collection, which was kind of a big deal for me at the time because I'd always written off the Game & Watches as crappy LCD games akin to those 90s era Tiger handheld games I'd had as a kid, which were awful, and even Mr Game & Watch's appearance in Smash Bros Melee seemed to me to be nothing but a cute nod to ancient Nintendo history. But of the Game & Watch games I've actually gone and played, including the above and the various Game & Watch collections for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, they're actually fun little games! Green House is - so far - my favorite, but I've found myself enjoying Ball, Helmet, Donkey Kong Jr, Fire, and a few others lately on various old collections. If you haven't given these games a shot, I'd really recommend them - they're quite arcadey (in an early 80s way) and can get quite hectic.
I'm in the early stages of playing on Wonderswan hardware, too. I got a Final Fantasy themed Wonderswan Color, and will be backlighting it soon, and apparently, the guy who makes the flash cart is going to be making a new batch soon:
I hope I can get one, because they're not made very often, and I want to be able to play English fantranslations of things like the first Chocobo Dungeon game, the SaGa 1 remake, and the first two Final Fantasies on actual hardware!
So this thread is for non-Gameboy Yokoi stuff (since Tegan's thread has that covered)! Does anyone have an Ultra Hand? Did you meet your spouse while playing the Love Tester? Or just talk about the Virtual Boy!